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While I rarely use the explore feature on instagram, I will see an image, follow the tags, and find the most amazing products and designers! Last month, Design Love Fest posted this picture from one of her great workshops! Gasp! The pillows! How amazing! Barrington Blue created the pillows and I have been coveting them […]

For my birthday this year, my best friend bought me a necklace. It was a large gold key stamped with the word “grateful.” I adore this necklace and rarely take it off. The Giving Keys is based in Los Angeles and employs people transitioning out of homelessness to create simple, but inspiring jewelry. One day […]

You know I have a slight obsession with school supplies. When I saw the cord tacos from This Is Ground, based in LA, I was seriously tempted to buy the entire line – I need the passport cover, the leatherback journal cover, and the cordito. Maybe I should just by the great escape suite and […]

I don’t know why I feel shallow saying I love retail. Millions of people love Nascar, summer blockbuster movies with explosions, and cat videos on the Internet – all things that are kinda silly to me, but I am not judging – so why do I feel shallow saying I love walking into a clean, […]

Woke up this morning contemplating a tweet I saw late Monday night on my feed. A well-known lifestyle blogger and director of her own brand and design studio, Kate Arends of Wit & Delight, gently slammed Kinfolk magazine and her “bloggy friends” (her term). She politely suggested it was time to step up our […]

My obsession with school supplies dates back to…well, the introduction of the trapper keeper? The Husband learned about my issue in college when I would return from the Student Union Bookstore armed with dozens of pens, highlighters, binders, dividers, and reams of notebook paper in different rule (because sometimes you want to write big and […]

I have a hard time parting ways with perfectly functional furniture. Case in point: A Basket Weave Wrought Iron Framed Mirror from the first days of our marriage. After surfing the web for days, I stumbled on to a few Rub and Buff project sites dedicated to costume making for medieval fairs and robot conventions […]

I am obsessed with paper goods. I tell people I have an under-the-bed tupperware container full of stationery and cards. Truth be told, my grandmother’s entire three-drawer hope chest is stuffed with stationery that I have collected over the years. You want proof? The cards pictured at the right were given to me by my […]

Last fall, I mentioned how much fun I had using Rub and Buff for a DIY to update this mirror. This fall, I decided to tackle the extra space on my bookshelves and I just knew Rub and Buff would be a part of that project. For better or worse, I have two extra […]

I fell in love with Chance last year when the brand opened a pop-up store in Nolita – I wanted to move into the store and never leave. I am obsessed with the classic nautical boatneck tops and basic beach towels. For the second collection, the founder, Julia Leach, is taking us to a laid […]